Ask HN: How do I pull the trigger and start?

Post by a1235813 » Sat, Oct 15, 2011, 12:31 AM UTC

thanks everyone, i appreciate your suggestions. i think right now i don't have the option to leave my job. what's clearer to me is that i just need to carve out time for my business every day and making small strides.

so my business/plan is actually 2 part and it's got to do with the real estate and investments industry.

1. building a solution to bring and connect real estate investors together to help them achieve a common goal. i'm working on it part-time but moving very slowly because of the other part of this whole bit.

2. actively be involved with investments myself and use my product/solution when it's ready. the thing is that it does take some time to hunt and act on deals, but it can def be done part time and i'm making some progress on this. this is the meat.

i did get some funding setup aside but it's strictly for my investments pool. i can't quit my job and eat through my funding which is supposed to have it's own purpose.

family/spouse is onboard to some degree. they don't get in my way most of the time.

Post by md1515 » Sat, Oct 15, 2011, 3:36 AM UTC

I think there are a lot of good points in the thread. I understand your risk that makes it seemingly impossible to leave your job. I would agree that without many paid customers it is not worth it to do so.

Try to spend the first few hours after you wake up on your project (I have found these to be the most productive hours of the day). Also try to bring a lunch into work and do some work then? Although doing a side project at work could lead to some problems down the road.

If you want to bounce some ideas off of me or anything, send me an email (it is in my profile). I'm not the most useful person in the world, but I'd love to help if I can.

Good luck

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